As a result of the growth of his business in the decades of the 1860s and 1870s, which perhaps was fueled by the construction of the Fulton Road branch of the West Side Street Railway (streetcar) in 1879, George Tinnerman razed his commercial building (featured in the 1874 Cuyahoga County Atlas) and erected in its place an elegant three-story commercial building that was designed by Cleveland architect Andrew Mitermiler. It featured an exterior facade of bricks and sandstone arranged in a manner called polychromatic structuring, according to local architectural historian Tim Barrett. A decade later, he built on the north side of the building a substantial addition designed by the architectural firm of Sprackling and Matzinger. In 1915, after George Tinnerman closed his retail store on Lorain, the building was razed, and in its place, Lorain Street Savings Bank built the four-story Beaux-Arts style building which, as of 2022, still stands on northeast corner of the Lorain-Fulton intersection. | Source: Tinnerman Lofts websiteDownload Original File
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"A Larger and Grander Building for George Tinnerman." appears in: Lorain-Fulton Square
